46 EGGS AND POULTRY 
for all of a flock of 10 or 12 to lay in one day, 
but not for all of a flock of 500. 
Allowing that the results are better from 
small lots than when housed together in 
great numbers, you must stop to consider 
how you could properly care for 500 chickens 
if they were housed in 20 separate coops or 
1,000 in 40 coops. The man who has tried the 
3x6 house, housing Io or 12 hens, certainly 
would feel discouraged as to ever building 
up a flock of 1,000 housed the same way, as 
the nuisance of feeding, watering and clean- 
ing the houses would be so great, and the 
head bumps so many that he couldn’t stand 
the strain. The cost of building is also much 
less with the large flocks, as is readily under- 
stood. 
Long laying houses are all practically the 
same, 12 to 16 feet wide and any length de- 
sired. The one mentioned previously here, 
to house the 200, was 40x15 feet to be added 
to as required. Each additional 200 fowls 
will not need the extra 4o feet. My 120 foot 
house cares for 800 fowls, each one of the 
800 having 1,800 square feet to roam around. 
The 200 in the 4o foot house would have 
only 600 square feet, so the large flock in one 
way would be better housed than the small 
